Sci-fi game part 2

Hello peoples. Today I'm finally getting back to that sci-fi game I had been thinking about that I talked about a while ago. Here it goes.

So the biggest part of this game is the customization and the combat. For a game that I want to be this customizable there has to be a lot of weapons also. So as I was thinking about this I had come up with a total of 5 weapons. Pitiful. So I determined a way for me to progressively come up with more and more weapons. The system is based off of a weapon being two parts. The first, the transmission of how it's delivered, and the second the effect it has on the target. After this I came up with around 8 or 9 transmissions and 7 effects 9•7=54, then I discovered that two of the effects could be divided into themselves to create many more which lead to create 25 fictional and real energies and 25 fictional growths. Growths are a kind of programmable substance that would automatically repair parts of your ship with itself if your ship was damaged, or if weaponized would attack the enemy ship like a virus. So now in total I have 55 effects and by now around 12 transmissions. At this point I used the same technique I used on the effects, realizing my transmissions were to broad and divided those as well leaving me with 100 transmissions. You would think that 55•100 would leave me with 5,500 weapons but unfortunately some effects would not work with certain transmissions, for instance if every bullet fired had the gravity effect things would get pretty crazy so once you multiply all the possible effects with a certain transmission you add together all those numbers for a grand total of...


2129. Over 2000 weapons. With varying intensities. Oh right and some of them have their own customizable area of affect. Feeling quite proud of myself and the incomprehensible scrawl that developed over my crumpled sheet of paper I realized another thing.


Mother of god. With such a wide range of weapons with a wider range of damage I would have to come up with many ways to keep the defense of the ships progressing upwards also so it wouldn't just be a game of who can shoot first.

So the first thing I did was hit the internets and look at lists of fictional metals. Then I took the prefix, the part before the -ium and put it in a word scrambler. Now then if I couldn't get my idea directly from the anagram of the word it would at least spark thoughts about some cool names for fictional metals. So after doing this for a while I came up with 100 fictional metals, all completely original.

Here was my next dilemma. The game would also focus around gathering these metals yourself and making then yourself so if you could easily forge a metal into the shape you wanted then your forge would have to be as powerful as the weapons themselves. So I hurdled that by coming up with this. An example metal may not be as strong as it's predecessor but it would have more potential. This potential would be for a fictional machine that could make the molecules in a substance more and more rigid and structured, increasing the hardness, the more potential a metal had the more the machine could structure the metals. So in the game you would forge your metal into a shape for your ship and then make it hard with your machine. Now 100 metals is still a small number compared to over 2000 weapons so to prevent the damage of the weapons overcoming the hull metals there will also be different protective shields so that the next defensive step for your ship would often alternate between a new metal or a new shield.

Wow that was a rant. Bye.


- By Ashton

NYCC

    Hello peoples. Today I'm talking about the loot I got from New York Comic Con.

So I came to Comic Con with 215$ (more money than my dad had to spend.) At first I didn't see much that I liked there that was reasonably priced until I saw this poster for the only anime show I watch, Attack on Titan for 20$. The poster has all of the titans that appear in the show to be intelligent (wording it carefully here to avoid spoilers) lined up in a row on a black background. After that it was easier to spot things that I liked. The next thing I saw I was coming in to a booth that had the stuffed chibi aliens that I've seen the chestburster and facehugger of, I had already gotten the chestburster and was considering getting the facehugger when I turned and saw the most adorably terrifying thing in my life. It was a stuffed chibi alien as an adult that was a foot tall. IT EVEN SHOT OUT ITS INNER MOUTH AHEN YOU SQUEEZED ITS CHEST. It was 20-30$. After that I got a 3 and 3/4 inch predator and terminator figures that were retro styles for 20$ each. Next I finally relented and got a 90 dollar action figure of The Spitter from Aliens: Colonial Marines. I was nervous at first that it would be a disappointment for a such a high price but everything about it was top quality and it's the best figure I have. The paint is excellent, the articulation is excellent and the joints are very sturdy so your not afraid to actually pose it. The tail is awesome and long and had a bendy wire in it. It came with a small stand with a peg and a broken tube with a facehugger. The facehugger is probably the best one I have also. Lastly I was roaming around and I spotted a booth that was totally devoted to Attack on Titan where I got an awesome hoodie. My only complaint about it is that the zipper was way to cheap to work even once but it was still a good buy for only 35$. I thought that would be my last purchase as I was running out of money but I saw these 4 imported alien figures from china for 20$ dollars each I was ready to say no because of how much I had spent already but then my dad asked which 2 do I want and I was not arguing. I got the boiler and the leader, also both from aliens colonial marines. They are nice sculpts but a bit lacking in paint and the articulation makes me very nervous. The figures also came with 6 extra hands which were nice on the leader (black) but were all almost identical on the boiler (white). They also came with miny stands, eggs, and facehuggers.

So that was my comic con loot. Bye.

Birthday

Hello peoples. Today I'm talking about my birthday. Here it goes.

Last blog I said I would write about a combat system for a video game I've thought about but I've been very busy recently so it's being postponed a while. So last Sunday I turned 15. So that morning I got up at 5:30 and ran. A few minutes before 6 I went down to the brick sign and sat with the sunrise until it turned 6 which was when I was born. Later that day my moms parents came down and I opened my presents. I got cards from my grandparents and family and my mom and dad got me 2 shirts. My mom's parents got me some clothes from L.L. Bean and a lot of beef jerky. Next I went to the theatre and saw Annabel. Annabel wasn't bad but I didn't think it was very scary. Afterwards we went to Ruby Tuesdays and back home for some Ice cream cake. After that I saw Alien 3. I thought alien 3 was pretty good and a good end to the last 2 movies. My major present was going to the New York Comic Con a few days ago which I'll talk about as my next blog.


Bye.


- By Ashton

Hello peoples today I'm gonna be talking about a concept I've had for a while. Here it goes.

So when I was in school I came up with this concept for a sci fi game. It would be a space game based around building your own ships. You would start out with a 1 man ship that could collect oil and gas from gas planets, and minerals manned by one man. With the oil and gas you could make more fuel for flying and the minerals for building. When you build a ship you need certain parts plus materials for the hull. For instance a fighter ship would need an engine, cockpit, and a small weapon. Once you have these out on the grid you would place blocks of different materials to make the hull, and then afterwards use tools to smooth, round, or sharpen corners etc. finally you would add exhaust ports on the backside of your ship. The heavier or more materials you used to build it, the more powerful your engine would have to be and the more exhaust ports you would need. When you were done you could save a blueprint of it, that way you could build a copy of it as long as you had the materials. Your base is a small colony in space built with a hangar on top to land your ships on. As you go on and build more and bigger ships and recruit more people your hanger would increase in size and your apartments below would also grow. Your colony moves like a ship but needs to be protected by fighting ships. Green areas in space you could move your colony to but red areas have to be explored by your ships first. As you explore you can do missions that could have either good ratings or bad ratings. Destroying a colony for their resources would obviously be bad and saving a cargo ship from pirates would be good. If your good you would get bonuses like calling for backup from corporations and peace keeping forces, or access to military grade weapons. Being bad would let you call backup from pirates and conquering forces, or black market access. As you go along completing missions and collecting resources you will also need to manage your colony, ships, and people. Once you reach a certain amount of ships of a certain type or complete certain missions, etc. you would unlock another size rating for building. This makes it so that over time your ships will go from 3 or 4 fighter pilots to an armada of ships of all sizes and capabilities, all completely your own. You would also need people to run and pilot these ships so you would have to hire people interested from populated planets and build apartments for them on your colony. This also leads to findings many different alien races. With people there also comes food and water. You would collect water, plant samples, and animals for breeding. The ships needed for these would start off as simple green houses and stables to more complex ships that support many different alien plants and animals. Keeping up with this would also require accounting and commerce. Your first would be a small shop connected to your colony, until you would eventually have huge malls and business centers attached to it with schools, hospitals, gyms, your own police force within your colony, the possibilities are endless.

This is already rather long so next I'll be talking about the combat and how that works. Bye.


- By Ashton

Hello peoples. Today I'm talking about books again. Here it goes.

As you all may know The Belgariad and The Mallorean or just "the Garion books" are my favorite book series by David Eddings. Eddings also wrote another fantasy series afterwards called The Elenium and The Tamuli. Currently I'm reading the first book in the Elenium called The Diamond Throne. The prologue is a story that tells part of the mythology of that world much like the Garion books. The story tells of a troll named Ghwerig that found an irregular shaped sapphire of great power in his caves. After an extremely longer time of careful sculpting the troll fashioned a sapphire rose which he named Bhelliom and behind the jewel lied all the power of his gods, the troll gods. However Ghwerig was angered when he learned he could not use it until his gods taught him that he needed two keys of great power to unlock the Bhelliom. So he forged two rings to serve as keys for the Bhelliom out of shards left over from sculpting the gem. The elder Styric gods tried to take the Bhelliom from him but without success because the gems power was to great. The younger Styric gods wanted no god to wield so great a power so they sent the goddess Asphrael and she went and sang the troll to sleep and stole his rings. The story goes on for a while about kingdoms and gods but by the end of it much of Eosia's history is still shrouded in mystery.

Sparhawk is a Pandion Knight of Elenia and the Queen's personal champion however her father unjustly exiled Sparhawk to Rendor indefinitely. Not until 10 years later did Sparhawk return legally by using a tear stained contract the queen had written at 8 yrs old saying that when she was crowned he could come back. He soon discovers that the queen had fallen ill and 12 of his brotherhood of Pandion knights and their teacher the Styric sorceress Sephrenia placed a spell that would encase her in a block of diamond on her throne keeping her alive for as long as Spephrenia and the twelve knights lived. However the burden of the spell would kill one knight every month until the queen Elahna died. The quest is to find a cure for the queen before she dies and the evil priest Anias gains rule of all of Eosia.

I am loving The Elenium almost as much as Eddings' Garion books but that's probably just nostalgia of reading them at a young age. Bye.



- By Ashton

Arrow

Hello peoples. Today I'm blogging about a TV show. Here it goes.

The show is called Arrow. Arrow is a live action show based off of the DC comics character Green Arrow. Oliver Queen is a millionaire playboy out on a yacht with his girlfriends sister. Not the best guy. Before long what seems like a freak storm destroys the yacht. His father kills himself on the life raft to save his son and leaving him with a promise to right the wrongs his father had made in life. The life raft shores up on an island in the pacific. Incidentally one of the most dangerous places on earth. Five years later a fishing vessel sails close to the island and a heavily scarred Oliver is rescued and taken back to Star City in America.

He arrives with a list of names from his father of rich, corrupt, citizens of Star City from wealthy business men to drug dealers. He sets out as a hooded vigilante in green righting wrongs to save his city with a bow and arrows. As his crusade progresses you see more and more of the mysteries of what happened to him on that island.

The show is intense and action filled however it is also filled with mystery which is something a lot of action shows miss. It also has a ton of Easter eggs peppered through the show referencing the original DC character. I highly suggest this for anyone that's a fan of action TV shows or of Green Arrow.









Bye.


- By Ashton

Gemini Strike

Hello peoples. Today I'm blogging about another iOS game here it goes.

The game I'm blogging about is called Gemini Strike. You are a clone fighter pilot that protects earth and comes back every time he dies. While you are fighting enemies you earn gems and credits and you can find cargo by destroying cargo ships that happen upon your path. With gems you can open the cargo boxes to get most of the time common parts to equip to your ship. Parts have combinations of three stats, armor, HP, and damage to add to your ship. Most of them also have an effect like lasers, EMPs, healing, rockets, etc. you can also open cargo boxes from the black market using credits and these parts are rare and more valuable. Finally you can go on secret missions that are harder than others to find cargo boxes that cost less credits to open and have even better parts. Credits have one more use. You can also use credits to buy ships. There are 7 different models of ships so far. Each model has it's unique effect plus stat bonuses. The more expensive model you buy the more devastating the effect will be and the higher the stat bonuses will be.

Each sector has around 4-5 missions in it before you get to the last mission which has a boss. In the missions most enemies will die in one shot, are small, and have one type of attack. You will also get bigger mini bosses that have a health bar at the top next to yours. Destroying these, and the cargo ships will grant you things called reactors. Reactors appear at the bottom of the screen and double tapping the screen or tapping it will activate it. Reactors will give you effects based on their color for example green are rockets and pink is a huge laser. It only lasts for a few seconds and then is gone. If you get a new reactor without using the old one it will just replace it. The boss at the end of each sector is a very large black ship with a lot of health and multiple attacks. There are also 3 other types of missions. In these you don't have weapons. In the blockade missions you have to maneuver around lasers. In meteor missions you dodge meteors and in mine missions you dodge mines.

Gemini strike also has some really good music and sound effects that go with the space battles perfectly. I also like how the battlefield extends beyond the screen border a and the camera follows you so you actually have room to dodge the lasers. My favorite feature is definitely the high level of customization you can have on a ship.

Bye.


- By Ashton